Soon Ambon and a reason for a pictureless blog

We're now nearing Ambon with the engine running, sails up, an opposing current running under the keel and our fingers, toes, legs -and whatever we're able to cross- crossed that the ambonese authorities will let us stay in the country.

The trip here have have been frustrating. We were able to get away with a load of diesel from Sorong without anyone paying too much attention to our lack of valid indonesian travel-documents. Apart from that we have been battling opposing wind and currents pretty much since we left the windless area just below the equator north of the island of Irian Jaya. Poor Joachim who joined us in Jayapura didn't exactly get the trip he was hoping for: a couple of anchorages, apart from that A LOT of sailing, however in frustrating wind- and current conditions for most of the time. Everything seems to have been taking quite a lot more time than expected.

As the most observant of you guys might have noticed there has not been a lot of pictures on the blog lately. We're experiencing some problems after the harddrive on Egil's computer broke down. We were miraculously able to change the harddrive for the one still in Øyvinds laptop whose screen broke down in Fiji. However we lost a lot of software and drivers and other things with funny names that you apparantly find inside a harddrive. We are going to fix this, but we need a little time and a half-decent internet connection. Until then, please be patient, support us and keep following the blog. We'll get a lot more pictures in there eventually!